Our Values

We believe that clients heal and grow best through self-discovery, tuning into their unique strengths, and clearing overwhelming noise. Creating a safe harbor for exploring, processing, and learning is critical. We value authentic, transparent, and compassionate communication. We respect each client’s right to their individual values, goals, and therapy priorities. Integrity and empowerment are to be demonstrated with every client and every interaction. We believe in providing practical, evidence-based, action-oriented tools, resources, and assessments.

Our Clients

We work with adults and 16+ teens on an individual therapeutic basis. Common client challenges include stress, anxiety, depression, loss and grief, trauma, life change adjustments, relationship and parenting, and navigating through career challenges.

We also offer physician and leadership coaching and development, primarily for healthcare providers, first responders and executives.

Our Services

We provide mental health evaluations and diagnosis, action-oriented treatment plans, therapy sessions, and practical tools and resources. We also provide customized physician and executive assessment and coaching programs. More about our Services

Our Expertise

Mental Health Therapy

We are fully licensed clinical psychotherapists. We have the ability to assess and diagnose based on a thorough mental health evaluation, and to guide clients through goal-oriented treatment and development plans.  Our providers utilize evidence-based practices, skills, and tools backed by credible research.  Our team has advanced practice skills with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT),  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT),  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), CBT-I for Insomnia, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Physician and Executive Coaching

We are certified through the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), International Coach Federation (ICF), College of Executive Coaching, and Hogan Assessment Systems. We work primarily with healthcare organizations to assess, coach and develop physician and executive leaders.  We are certified to administer and interpret leadership and emotional intelligence assessments, personality profiles (and more) utilizing evidence-based international gold standard tools.

Healing? Sustaining? Growing? Accelerating? Taking leaps and bounds forward?
We’ll meet you right where you’re at and support your next steps.

River Pines Counselors are  Darcy Stivland and Kate Auge